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US admits more juveniles held at Guantanamo
A spokesperson for the Pentagon acknowledged on Sunday while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the US held 12 juveniles at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The announcement came in response to a study released last we (More) |
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Morocco court convicts ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee on terrorism charges
A Moroccan criminal court on Thursday convicted Moroccan citizen Said Boujandia of crimes associated with terrorist acts. The Sale Criminal Court sentenced Boujandia to 10 years in a Moroccan prison. Boujandia admitted his association with with a t (More) |
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Applying the Rule of Law to All Heads of State
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before (More) |
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Rights groups urge independent commission on US treatment of detainees
Authors of a new report on detainees released from US detention in Guantanamo Bay [Global Security backgrounder; JURIST news archive] are urging US president-elect Barack Obama [official website; JURIST news archive] to form an independent, nonpart (More) |
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Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home and (More) |
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No final decision reached on Guantanamo prisoners: Obama adviser
Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama emphasized Monday in the wake of press reports that Obama has not made a decision regarding the future of the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and its prisoners, despite an earlier Associated Press (More) |
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US transfers two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Algeria
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced the transfer of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Algeria. The Department says that approximately 60 detainees at the base are eligible for release, and that it is negotiating with host countri (More) |
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To End All War: Restoring America as a Champion of Peace and Law
On the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that US President-elect Obama should act quickly to bring the United States back into compliance with international l (More) |
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Obama advisers planning Guantanamo prison closure: report
Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama have begun working on a plan to hold criminal trials in US courts for a large number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a Monday report by the Associated Press. Under the plan, which would also e (More) |
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Converting Gitmo into a Front Line Post in the War Against Global Warming
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that not only should the incoming Obama administration close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, it should close down the stigmatized military base as a whole, (More) |
Congress passed Roosevelt's New Deal legislation
On June 16, 1935, Congress passed President Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislation to start a recovery program from Great Depression.
Learn more about FDR and the New Deal from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
